Axl joined his hero, Elton John, for the duet of the night, "Bohemian Rhapsody". He also performed "We Will Rock You" with Queen.

Slash performed "Tie Your Mother Down" with Queen. At the end of the show, Axl, Duff and Slash joined the rest of the performers for a rendition of "We Are The Champions".

The press conference was held at The Gaslight in Hollywood, CA.

The rest of the band does a soundcheck at Slane Castle. It lasts for two hours.

Midway through the set Axl and Slash performs the Hungarian folk song "Tavasziszel". After two verses Axl lets the crowd take over for the third. It's the same song that Queen performed there in 1985.

Axl and Bono join U2's accountant Osmond Kilkenny for his birthday party at a restaurant.

The band is introduced with the phrase: "OK you beer swilling, Merc driving mugs....".

GN'R play for 2 hours and 42 minutes, which makes this the longest show yet on this leg.

Members of The Scorpions are at the show.

Later they meet up with Jeff Beck, Lenny Kravitz, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry who have flown in for the televised Paris show.

During the evening the band's backline is transported to the Elysee Montmartre club where the band continues rehearsing with Kravitz, Tyler and Perry.

Doctors recommend that Axl takes 36 hours rest, the Manchester show is postponed.

The production crew catering, which isn't needed now, is given to a local hospice.

Axl remains in Paris, the rest of the band fly to London.

Axl flies in from Paris on the 11th. That same day the band (minus Axl) and crew take part in a softball game at the Bank Of England sports ground.

On the 12th the band's UK booking agent John Jackson organizes a five hour go-karting championship in West London for the band and entourage.

This show is regarded as the hottest show on the tour so far. During the show Axl has one trouble-making drunken fan removed from the crowd. Later he stops the show so that security can help a young girl, who he spots in distress at the front of the crowd.

Duff had a verbal altercation with one fan. After Axl's words of warning - "I wouldn't mess with him, he's not had a drink in two weeks!" - the fan piped down. After the show the band fly back to London to continue their stay at the exclusive Conrad Hotel, where fellow guests included Prince and INXS.

Slash stocks up on Dr. Marten boots and visits London Zoo.

Matt and Gilby go to Kensington Market

Following this latest incident, Axl issued a press statement in which he said: "Having just given what I consider to be the best performance I am capable of at this point in my career, I totally understand why someone in the UK would want to needlessly harass me in this way.

"I don't expect to be treated any differently from anyone else travelling in and out of Britain and I understand these people have a job to do. However, to be singled out by someone who just wants to score a few points and have a story to tell his friends over a beer is really out of order."

Another sold-out show at the 50,000 capacity St Jakob Stadium in Basel, Switzerland.

Duff - starting to feel the effects of playing in the torrential downpour in Wurzburg - retires early to bed, with a temperature and signs of flu. Some band members venture out and sample the local bars.

Duff's condition worsens and so he spends most of the day in bed hoping to recover for the next day's gig in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

As the evening draws in, Axl's also found to be suffering from a sore throat

However, Duff arrives at the night's hotel feeling considerably worse and on medical advice is forced to spend two days resting. The following night's show in Belgium has to be cancelled.

The band fly to Milan. Duff stays in his room. The Italian promoter takes everyone else out to one of the city's finest pasta restaurants.

In the evening he dines with Versace's sister, Donatella, and her top model husband Paul Becak. Also at the table are supermodel Naomi Campbell and Axl's girlfriend Stephanie Seymour.

After the show, GN'R and entourage travel to San Remo, their base for the next couple of days.

The gig has no curfew to obey so the band delay their start until darkness so that the lightshow can be seen in full. The gig ends in the early hours of the morning.

In the evening news reaches the management that the authorities have closed the Vicente Caldaron stadium in Madrid. The concrete fabric of the building has been badly effected by aluminosis. A search for an alternative venue begins.

In a statement issued on Friday, Axl said: "We were looking forward to this last date in Europe, as we love the Spanish audiences and we were planning on a wild night to end the tour. We hope that we will be able to return soon and make it up to our fans."

When it started, the crowd started throwing empty water bottles, as they had done during the support acts' sets. In the middle of the first song, Axl was running and slipped on one of the bottles. He fell flat on his back and sang the rest of the song and the second song like that! Duff went over to check if he was ok.

Then he got up and said if people didn't stop throwing bottles at the stage, they would leave. He said "I didn't come here to get hurt" and they stopped playing!

After a while they came back and continued the show. But the crowd was throwing fire-crackers and lighters between them, not at the band.

Axl stoped the show once again (during Civil War), told the crowd to stop. Then a member of the Portuguese organization came onstage and tried to calm people down.

The show was one year after the St. Louis riots and the media was refering to that incident the next day.

Finally the band returned and started playing Patience and there was no more incidents during the show.

During the last song, "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", he is hit in the genitals by a cigarette lighter thrown from the crowd with considerable force. Axl retires backstage to regain his breath, so Duff has to take over on vocals.

Axl has overcome his vocal chord and arytenoid inflammation problems. GN'R spent much of the downtime in L.A. shooting a couple of music videos.

Backstage Axl exchanged some words with Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. According to Michael Azerrad's book "Come As You Are The Story Of Nirvana" Courtney asked Axl if he wanted to be the godfather of their child. Axl said " You shut your bitch up or I'm taking you down to the pavement!" to Kurt. Kurt glared at Courtney and said "Shut up, bitch!". The Nirvana entourage exploded in laughter.

Following their tour-debut at shows in Kansas City and Denver last week, Body Count are announced to be taking over the slot for two of the remaining five shows. Motorhead are also added to the bill for three gigs.

During October, November and December, the band plays shows in Europe, Japan and Australia.

GN'R originally offered to play a second show on Monday, but the promoters believed that those who had travelled long distances would not be able to stay an extra two days.

With no time to build a new roof, the set was redesigned. The lights that survived the crash were repositioned to the stage's side walls.

By 10pm the stadium was full - with hundreds of ticket holders outside. Scuffles broke out, a few people were injured, and some nearby cars and property were damaged before the police could restore the order by the use of tear-gas.

GN'R took the stage at 10:30pm. The show started with "Welcome To The Jungle". During "November Rain" there was another cloudburst. Within minutes, the equipment was beneath half-an-inch of water. The band had to take a break to dry and make safe all the electrical equipment. They returned after 15 minutes to finish the set.